yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] stian230:
If you wanna use your phone/maps offline and use the old version . I guess this is not for you ..

I prefer to use my phone and maps online at all times but that's just me.
[Android Apps and Games] dj-:
Lol. same her prefer online at all times:)
[Android Apps and Games] stian230:
I'm not sure if he means when your drive into a tunnel or something similar and lose signal, but I never have problems with it .
[Android Apps and Games] rak007:
Sorry for being Noob. But need to know how exactly is this different from the normal Google maps ??
[Android Apps and Games] comfor:
Thanks love it finally nav:)
[Android Apps and Games] stian230:
It's for us that don't live in the usa so we can use navigation in google maps
[Android Apps and Games] rak007:
^^ Thanks for clarification. It will help me too in that case :)

Btw is the navigation voice guided or just on-screen ??
[Android Apps and Games] ArunOnline:
I am trying this on a rooted Droid Incredible. Even though Titatium Backup Root shows that Google Maps (v 5.3.0) has been uninstalled successfully (after wipe), it shows up (same version) when I refresh the App list. Has anyone faced this issue?
[Android Apps and Games] comfor:
Have you try uninstalle with SystemApp Remover http://market.android.com/details?id=com.danesh.system.app.remover
[Android Apps and Games] stian230:
Fancy app;)
[Android Apps and Games] ArunOnline:
I did check using the SystemApp Remover app earlier and Maps wasn't listed there.

Anyway, I just used the "Uninstall Updates" option in Market for both Maps and Street and then it went away! After that I installed the apk (by opening it) after moving to the /system/app/ folder. Then I installed Street from Market. Navigation on Google Maps is working for me now!
[Android Apps and Games] sepehrock:
hi

i installed it but there's a problem, when wi-fi/data in enabled it goes to Force Close. Another thing, when I disable wi-fi/data the program opens but cant find my location, when i click on my location it says waiting for location but there's no GPS icon on status bar. i have this problem on both ownhere and Brut mods. however there's no problem with the original maps but I need navigation.

Every thing was fine and i was using Brut mode. Today I reinstalled android (not update already have the last version) on my X10 mini pro using SE Update service because of some reason and the problem occurred.

help me pls.

phone: X10mini pro, Rooted, android 2.1-update 1
[Android Apps and Games] sepehrock:
SOLVED

1. Remove map.apk

2. install googel maps 4.4

3. push maps5.2.1-ownhere.apk (not resign)

DONE.
[Android Apps and Games] sepehrock:
it's working but navigation says Getting directions and stays on it.

help me pls
[Android Apps and Games] BryanChung:
So 5.3.0 is not out yet?
[Android Apps and Games] tomurbanowicz:
In this mod I can't to login to google maps (places).
[Android Apps and Games] vbhoj74:
Its working for me, thanks.

I'm though not able to sign in using goole maps ? anyone else having similar issue ?
[Android Apps and Games] sepehrock:
you have to give permission to ownhere to access maps accounts.
[Android Apps and Games] tomurbanowicz:
Thx, it's OK. But now I can't open reinstalled Street View :/
[Android Apps and Games] vbhoj74:
thanks for replying, How do I do that ?
[Android Apps and Games] stian230:
Okay when you mean open , you have installed street view but it won't work??
[Android Apps and Games] stian230:
When you trying to login a triangle will pop up in the top bar, just click on it to give GoogleMaps permission to use your gmail ... then restart maps
[Android Apps and Games] vbhoj74:
Cool, thanks, overlooked that notification amongst so many.
[Android Apps and Games] stian230:
Yeah I think I did just the same the first time :)
[Android Apps and Games] tomurbanowicz:
No, it's installing, but the app there is no in list of all app. When I click in the market Street view is installed, but I can't to click to Open.
[Android Apps and Games] stian230:
Can you see street view in titanium ? if you can then wipe uinstalled and reinstalled.
[Android Apps and Games] e654777:
Got it working on my tab. Yipee.
[Android Apps and Games] talexop:
Sorry it does not work for me!! Every maps.apk that is around 4.7 mb wont work.... only the ones that are 6.2mb work... Maybe it has to do with the compression...

Thanks anyway
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
Maps_mod_620_cleanup_xml.zip

I messed up on the xml cleanup and didn't remove all the maps references and I believe that is why it's not working for you. If you manually go through the packages.xml and remove all the maps references and reboot then I believe it will work for you. I am still working out how to add the rest of the xml cleanup to the script in the zip and will post it once I have it right.

Manually editing the file was the solution that worked for me. You can do it with a txt editor or use the sed commands that were posted.

Ok.. I think I have fixed the script in the zip file to remove all the correct maps references. Thanks to szihs for helping with the syntax and providing the modded maps.

Of course.. please let me know if this doesn't work for you and we can try and solve the issues.
[Android Apps and Games] talexop:
Great thanks this WORKED JUST FINE!...
[Android Apps and Games] bernard134:
Thanks, I got it working already after deleting some part of package.xml like you said, then I uninstall official google maps v6.2.0 then paste the mod version v6.2.0 into system>app and rename to Maps.apk and done! No reboot required, auto show all 4 (google maps applications) (:
[Android Apps and Games] gl7:
Maps_mod_620_cleanup_xml.zip works, thx Jayman007
[Android Apps and Games] neol23:
Can u explane please step-by-step how to install the new v. and the .zip?

Did not follow realy... :(
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
To use this zip you will need CWM recovery installed. Then you will just open the cwm recovery or the cwm app and select "Flash update" and point it to this zip and it will reboot and apply the new maps and clean your xml of the old maps references.
[Android Apps and Games] kotaxor:
Copy the new maps to /system/apps, boot into CWM and use the cleanup.zip to clean the package.xml and reboot back.

Everything working fine....thanks for the cleanup.zip.
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
The zip contains the new Maps.apk and copies it over to system/app for you as well as cleanup the xml. There is no need to do the copy yourself as it will just be overwritten with the version I have included in the zip.
[Android Apps and Games] hollow1:
Sadly, navigation Cambodia maps doesn't available at the moment :(
[Android Apps and Games] d3ph1r0x:
Google map force close and freeze !

my google map force closess when i install the non-rooted apk !! help please
[Android Apps and Games] dgcruzing:
That's working..

Cleaned it up well..showing 6.2 and nav is working directly instead of only directing you to use it in maps..

Thanks for the work...

sent from yet another MikG HTC Evo
[Android Apps and Games] kotaxor:
OIC...thought it was for cleaning up only.

So flashing through Recovery was all I need to do...:p

Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] Aqua_:
When I try to flash the zip through the CWM Recovery, it gives me Status 0 error. What could be wrong? :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
Which of the 2 zips did you use? The one with the cleanup script requires busybox and also it's set to look for the busybox sed to be at /sbin/sed.

If it can't find it there then the script will fail.
[Android Apps and Games] buntoo:
Thanks Jayman007

Jayman007: Thanks a lot mate :)

I downloaded ur work (Maps_mod_620_cleanup_xml) from some other website and then I had to install the CWM recovery. Everything is working fine after flashing the zip. I was never able to install the mod version in past, even after editing the packages.xml.

Thanks for your Great Help. :)

Also thanks to the mods who unlocked the navigation for all regions.
[Android Apps and Games] aliendna51:
I need immediate help! I flashed the above zip via CWM and I'm stuck on bootloop for about an hour now! Wiping dalvik didn't help..
[Android Apps and Games] Aqua_:
I used the cleanup one. I have busybox installed but when I looked at the sbin folder I didn't see the sed folder there. How do install the sed?
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
All the script does is copy the maps.apk to your system/app and delete 3 maps references from the packages.xml if they exist. 2 things you can try is to use adb to delete the maps.apk from system/app and then reboot and see if that helps. Maybe the maps.apk which would be installing when you boot is causing some issues with your system. The other thing to try would be to restore the backup you made of the packages.xml (you did make a backup right?) and see if that helps. I honestly don't think the missing entries from the packages.xml would cause any problems and if your don't have a back-up of the packages.xml then you could try renaming the existing one and reboot with no packages.xml and see if that changes things for you. I would bet the issue has to do with the install of the new maps.apk during boot. I sometimes get boot loops as well (no idea what causes them) and I just open the status menu when my phone boots and keep the screen on while it's booting and see what happens. Many time that stops the bootloops on my end.

---------- Post added at 12:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:00 AM ----------

sed is a binary and not a folder. Just look and see if there is a bin sbin/sed binary or even a link to the busybox dir. Maybe open rootexplorer and search for sed and see where it's at. You might have to just link (or copy) it to sbin/ to execute the script successfully.

OK.. so I changed the script to call sed without specifying the path. I tested it and it runs on my sg2. Maybe this will help for folks that don't have sed installed in the place I was calling it. Let me know if that changes anything for you.

I pulled v2 as I made a mistake and posted v3 which is fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] aliendna51:
So...I removed maps.apk using adb and it booted normally. I tried putting the maps.apk from the zip into system/app using root explorer but it constantly force closed...
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
Glad to hear you stopped the boot loop. I guess the maps.apk doesn't like your phone. Should probably state what phone you ate running on as maybe others using that phone can offer input. Try using the last version that's posted on the front page.

Sent from my GT-I9100T
[Android Apps and Games] aliendna51:
Oh, I didn't notice your answer :p Luckily I thought of the same thing.

I think I figured out what was the problem. I hadn't removed the maps.apk from system/app before flashing your zip and I have hybrid data 2 sd enabled, so after flashing I had my previous maps.apk in system/app and your maps.apk in sdext/app and I guess that was causing the conflict.

---------- Post added at 08:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:45 PM ----------

You posted before me once again :p

Well, I'll test your next zip (now that I've removed maps.apk) and reply here. I'm on a Samsung galaxy 3 with kyorarom rom and astrum kernel.
[Android Apps and Games] asametal:
I flashed Maps_mod_620_cleanup_xml_v2.zip - [Click for QR Code] with CWM, and all I get are FC´s. I deleted the app with Titanium Backup, and now it won´t let me install previous versions or even an official version from market. What to do?

EDIT: Finally after tons of deleting and tons of fixing I managed to install official Maps from market. After I wiped the data and uninstalled it with Titanium Backup, I could install Maps 6.0.3 ownhere signed version, which still works as individual navigation without having to put the destination in Maps first.
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
Sounds like the szith version is not working for everyone. It does seem to be working for many. Perhaps those that are having issues will have to wait for the Brut. All release.

Sent from my GT-I9100T
[Android Apps and Games] :No-Frost::
For me navigation doesn't even open... Everything else works like a charm...

I think I will have to wait for Ownhere version.
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
Interesting as the szith version is the only one that lets me open navigation directly. The brut.all version won't let me. Must be a difference in devices.
[Android Apps and Games] pafaisal:
select "Flash update" in CWM recovery...? you mean install zip from sd card...?
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
From the recovery I believe it says install zip from sd card and then you have to pick the option to select the zip and then point to the zip file you want to flash. From the cwm app it says flash update. Either way will work and really they both do the update via the same method.
[Android Apps and Games] [V]endetta:
my phone rooted...

but cant install onwhere signed...

only managed to install without root permission....

but all working great..only the icon got small green cirlce on bottom right...
[Android Apps and Games] hyperxi:
Hi Jayman007 I tried running your Maps_mod_620_cleanup_xml_v2.zip on my Galaxy Nexus, and I get

Error

(Status 0)

Looks like it doesn't work with the GN?
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
Maps_mod_620_cleanup_xml_v3.zip

The cleanup versions require busybox to handle the cleanup of the xml file. The version I posted that isn't cleanup should just copy the maps.apk to system/app and doesn't require busybox.

I have a gs2 so that's all I can test on.

Oh another thing that might be what makes it work on some and not on others is the version of CWM. cwm version 2 uses an older obsolete scripting language (amend)where as the version 3 uses edify (not sure if it will read the older amend as well). I packaged the zip for the newer version 3 using edify scripting.

Ok.. here is a version 3 of the zip.. I pulled out all path to all the commands.. (mount and sed) so that hopefully this will work on more devices. I tested it on my device and it runs without giving any errors.

just for the record.. here is the script that I have in the update zip...

#
# Updater-script for Android
#

ui_print("Packaged by Jayman007");

ui_print(">>> Mounting partitions");
run_program("mount", "/system");
run_program("mount", "/data");

ui_print(">>> Writing System");
package_extract_dir("system", "/system");

ui_print(">>> Cleanup packages.xml");
run_program("sed", "-i", "/<shared-user name=\"com.google.android.apps.maps/,/<\/shared-user>/d", "/data/system/packages.xml");
run_program("sed", "-i", "/<package name=\"com.google.android.apps.maps/,/<\/package>/d", "/data/system/packages.xml");
run_program("sed", "-i", "/com.google.android.apps.maps.permission.C2D_MESSAGE/d", "/data/system/packages.xml");

ui_print(">>> Unmounting partitions");
run_program("umount", "/system");
run_program("umount", "/data");

ui_print("Done!");

Here is some info on using CWM

http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/ClockworkMod_Recovery

and here is what the error codes mean

As for incompatible vs compatible update-binary I don't know what defines one as compatible. The one I use has always worked on my phone and seems to work for some other users as well. I don't even know where to find a diff update-binary to replace the one I use.

Maybe others can offer expertise here.
[Android Apps and Games] aliendna51:
Version 2 flashed without causing a bootloop but the app did not appear available and root explorer was force closing when trying to open sdext/app (no maps.apk existed in system/app). Version 3 also flashed normally and I could see maps.apk on system/app but the app was not available to run..

So, I got back to 6.11 but I'm willing to test again if you can figure out why it doesn't work for me..
[Android Apps and Games] oSandmaNo:
Thanks Jayman007

The first zip worked fine on Cyanogenmod 7.2 :)
[Android Apps and Games] Aqua_:
This is weird. When I tried flashing the newest v3 version I still get Status 0 error. :eek: My CWM version is 5.5.0.2 and my phone is Samsung Galaxy S running ICS 4.0.3. Could that be the problem?
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
Really not sure. Perhaps the update-binary is not compatible with your phone. If I knew of another update-binary I would make a new version using it and post for you to try but I'm just not clear on where to find a diff binary.

Do you have busybox installed?
[Android Apps and Games] DaOldMan:
Jayman, if you look at your script in version 2, you can see clearly that the whole copy of the /system tree is commented out, hence it doesn't copy the Maps.apk at all.

I am checking v. 3 now :)
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
You are correct... damn.. I commented that out for testing and guess I forgot to uncomment it. Thanks for catching that. I'm certain the v3 script is all uncommented and as I posted it.

I pulled v2 and it has been verified that v3 is correct. Just so it's clear, this would not have caused any damage but it would have deleted the maps.apk and not installed the new one. V3 has this correct.
[Android Apps and Games] Aqua_:
Yeah I had busybox installed and now I downloaded busybox installer from Market and installed it again. It should be ok.
[Android Apps and Games] tyfoxx:
Has anyone tried this on coredroid 9.x and what was the experience?

Please advise.

Tyfoxx
[Android Apps and Games] DaOldMan:
This script is wrong :( again. You have uncommented the command but you issue a command to delete the Maps.apk a line below, you should SWAP the lines - first delete the Maps.apk that people have and the COPY yours to the device.

Version 3 is fine, by the way :)

Thomas
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
damn.. again you are right.. this is why I'm not a coder.. no attention for detail...

yeah I had the install line commented out and the delete line in there to test if the script worked to just clean out the maps.apk and the xml file. Then I just forgot to correct it when I posted that version.. Well.. I will just pull v2 cause v3 is correct and working.

Thanks again for catching that.
[Android Apps and Games] hyperxi:
I decided to fall back to Maps 6.1.1 because I can't get any of the 6.2.0 mods to work.. but now each time I reboot my Maps settings are reset, and I'm greeted by the standard welcome messages in Maps. Any ideas on how to fix this guys?
[Android Apps and Games] DaOldMan:
I wish I had an answer as my problem is even worse. I can't install now anything else beside the 6.2 posted. I would love to know how to repair this to be able to install any Maps I need (like the 4.1.1 onwhere). And yes, I am proficient in Adb, Re and CWM coding which didn't help me at all. It must be a problem with the Packages.xml that was changed which I was so smart "not" to backup :(. Regenerating Packages.xml via deletion and wiping Dalvik cache/cache doesn't help either. I am stuck with the 4.2 now .... H E L P :)

Thomas
[Android Apps and Games] szihs:
Ideally it should be removing old maps, cleaning xml (second), installing the newmaps last.

Try directly from terminal ;; uninstall via TitaniumBackup, cleanup, and in installiation replace the maps you want to install. ( Or did u try the commands order i pasted already?)

Reboot and catch warnings/error in adb logcat.

---------- Post added at 10:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:58 PM ----------

do search and clean Maps.odex / Maps.dex.. in /system/app or /data/dalvik-cache or wherever you put that thing :) or reboot in recovery to clean dalvik-cache once.
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
I didn't bother doing the delete of maps.apk since then you are going to just copy a new maps.apk over the same location re writing the old one if it existed.

The problem also is that folks might have it named differently than maps.apk. If you guys can suggest some different ways of doing the script I will be happy to package it all up and we can test it.

The other thing I can add to the script is to delete the dalvik-cache at the end before reboot but when I do this it seems to make the bootup after that take longer due to the dalvik cache being rebuilt..

Maybe I should add that back in as well.

ui_print(">>> Cleaning process");
delete_recursive("/data/dalvik-cache");
[Android Apps and Games] szihs:
ui_print(">>> Deleting Maps.apk");

ui_print(">>> Cleanup packages.xml");

Moving installation to last is what should be okay, though i don't know if it matters in recovery mode.

ui_print(">>> Writing System");

package_extract_dir("system", "/system");

I don't know if (pm) package-manager is active in recovery mode.

if so, path can be deduced from

$ pm list packages | grep -r com.google.android.apps.maps

package:com.google.android.apps.maps

$ pm path com.google.android.apps.maps

package:/system/app/Maps.apk

for me the corresponding entry is generated like. So *system*Maps*dex wildchar should suffice

(but its not easy to put in script i guess) so just uninstall using titanium backup as it removes the only (particular) .dex/odex file.

Anyway if still problems following the instructions, let not make our phone useless (bootloops) etc. its not worth it :)
[Android Apps and Games] hyperxi:
I got the modded 6.2.0 working! I followed the installation instructions posted by szihs and referenced jayman's deleted packages.xml entries in this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21686091&postcount=1930

I didn't delete dalvik cache, but it works now, and my settings (and cached maps) are still there after a reboot. Thanks so much guys! :D
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
cleanup script

Here is a cleanup script that just removes he maps.apk, deletes the dalvik cache and removes maps references in packages.xml

#
# Updater-script for Android
#

ui_print("Packaged by Jayman007");

ui_print(">>> Mounting partitions");
run_program("mount", "/system");
run_program("mount", "/data");

ui_print(">>> Deleting Maps.apk");
delete("/system/app/Maps.apk");

ui_print(">>> Cleaning process");
delete_recursive("/data/dalvik-cache");
run_program("sed", "-i", "/<shared-user name=\"com.google.android.apps.maps/,/<\/shared-user>/d", "/data/system/packages.xml");
run_program("sed", "-i", "/<package name=\"com.google.android.apps.maps/,/<\/package>/d", "/data/system/packages.xml");
run_program("sed", "-i", "/com.google.android.apps.maps.permission.C2D_MESSAGE/d", "/data/system/packages.xml");

ui_print(">>> Unmounting partitions");
run_program("umount", "/system");
run_program("umount", "/data");

ui_print("Done!");

This ran fine for me and afterwards I was able to install the original maps from the market.

just keep in mind if you run this then the reboot time the first time is longer than normal as the dalvik-cache is rebuilt. Don't think your phone is locked or something just let it do its thing.
[Android Apps and Games] szihs:
some of them have dalvik-cache on sd-ext or otherwise. Best is to uninstall using TitaniumBackup + Cleanup/Install using update.zip.

those who are comfortable should just fire instructions at adb terminal.

I think people are just flashing the update.zip over existing maps. which may/maynot be named at that locations. Hence errors. :)
[Android Apps and Games] neol23:
Just flashed maps_mod_6.2.0-v3 - Navigation do not work!

Based in BG :)
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
What is the indication you get that it doesn't work? What phone? I'm on a GS2 in Thailand and the nav is working fine using the 6.2 mod posted by szihs here. Nav is not allowed by Google normally in Thailand.

Sent from my GT-I9100T
[Android Apps and Games] neol23:
See my phone in sig. :)

When I start navi - says is not supported and gives back "get directions" option only ;) ...

Which v. u have installed?
[Android Apps and Games] Jayman007:
Sorry but your sig doesn't display in tapatalk so until I logged into my computer I couldn't see your sig (or even that you had one).

I am using the 6.20 version that szihs posted. I also used that version when I created all the 6.2 .zip files I posted. Are you sure you are running the mod version and not the original maps? You are best off to uninstall via TB the maps that you have installed right now and then do the install of the modded version. If you push the file to system/app then you need to reboot for it to install.